Monday, June 27, 2005
The Neil Deal, America's Top Tribute to the music of Neil Young performed on Sunday 6/26 in Santa Monica in front of a capacity crowd at the Santa Monica Main Street Soulstice event. Joining us for this show was our friends Tony Kaye on Keys & Jim Altman on guitar. After a bit of some challenges with the sound system & having lead singer (Neil Young in the group) Dennis Neil stopped & started by the PA dying, we had the show mgmt show up with some extra equipment & the band continued for a solid 1.5 hr set without a break.
Beautiful Santa Monica weather & a fantastic audience that seemed to know the words as good (in some cases better) than we did, made for a great afternoon. There's something special about Neil Young's music. Maybe it's the lyrics, maybe the melody or a combo of all of them that brings people together. One of the people in the audience was just enjoying the show a lot & afterwards came up to me to say "Thank You" for really taking him on a trip through his memories of those years in the 1960's & 1970's.
Zeda Spiegel, who was taking care of our mailing list & cd sales, was approached by one enthusiastic fan who came to her & said, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, NEIL YOUNG IS PLAYING HERE, OH MY GOD !!!!!. Just another day in the life of The Neil Deal, not the real deal, but the next best thing if you love Neil Young's music!!
later.....Bruce...... bassist
Beautiful Santa Monica weather & a fantastic audience that seemed to know the words as good (in some cases better) than we did, made for a great afternoon. There's something special about Neil Young's music. Maybe it's the lyrics, maybe the melody or a combo of all of them that brings people together. One of the people in the audience was just enjoying the show a lot & afterwards came up to me to say "Thank You" for really taking him on a trip through his memories of those years in the 1960's & 1970's.
Zeda Spiegel, who was taking care of our mailing list & cd sales, was approached by one enthusiastic fan who came to her & said, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, NEIL YOUNG IS PLAYING HERE, OH MY GOD !!!!!. Just another day in the life of The Neil Deal, not the real deal, but the next best thing if you love Neil Young's music!!
later.....Bruce...... bassist
// posted by Bruce @ 10:35 AM 
